Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rustic

1 sense of rustic

Sense 1
rustic -- (an unsophisticated country person)
       => commoner, common man, common person -- (a person who holds no title)

Antonyms of adj rustic

3 senses of rustic

Sense 1
countrified, countryfied, rustic -- (characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness")

INDIRECT (VIA rural) -> urban -- (located in or characteristic of a city or city life; "urban property owners"; "urban affairs"; "urban manners")

Sense 2
bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated -- (awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists")

INDIRECT (VIA provincial) -> cosmopolitan -- (composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks")

Sense 3
agrestic, rustic -- (characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls")

INDIRECT (VIA rural) -> urban -- (located in or characteristic of a city or city life; "urban property owners"; "urban affairs"; "urban manners")

Similarity of adj rustic

3 senses of rustic

Sense 1
countrified, countryfied, rustic -- (characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness")
       => rural (vs. urban) -- (living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural")

Sense 2
bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated -- (awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists")
       => provincial (vs. cosmopolitan) -- (characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes")

Sense 3
agrestic, rustic -- (characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls")
       => rural (vs. urban) -- (living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural")